- Date: January 1, 2007
Awarded to: Oncel Tuzel, Fatih Porikli and Peter Meer
Awarded for: "Human Detection via Classification of Riemannian Manifolds"
Awarded by: IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Research Area: Machine Learning
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- Date: January 1, 2007
Awarded to: Yuri Ivanov, Christopher Wren, Alexander Sorokin and Ishwinder Kaur
Awarded for: "Visualizing the History of Living Spaces"
Awarded by: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS)
Research Area: Computer Vision
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- Date: December 19, 2006
Where: Advances in Multimedia
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Scalable Video Streaming Based on JPEG2000 Transcoding with Adaptive Rate Control" by Vetro, A., Schwenke, D., Hata, T. and Kuwahara, N. was published in Advances in Multimedia.
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- Date: December 8, 2006
Where: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "A Probabilistic Latent Variable Model for Acoustic Modeling" by Smaragdis, P., Raj, B. and Shashanka, M. was presented at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS).
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- Date: December 4, 2006
Where: IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Ranging in the IEEE 802.15.4a Standard" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Gezici, S. was presented at the IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON).
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- Date: December 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The articles "Channel Statistics-Based RF Pre-Processing with Antenna Selection" by Sudarshan, P., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J., "Macrocell-Wide Behavior of the Orthogonality Factor in WCDMA Downlinks" by Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Greenstein, L.J., "Keyhole Effect in MIMO Wireless Channels: Measurements and Theory" by Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F., "The COST 259 Directional Channel Model - Part 11: Macrocells" by Asplund, H., Glazunov, A.A., Molisch, A.F., Pedersen, K.I. and Steinbauer, M. and "The COST259 Directional Channel Model - Part I: Overview and Methodology" by Molisch, A.F., Asplund, H., Heddergott, R., Steinbauer, M. and Zwick, T. were published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: December 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Applying Antenna Selection in WLANs for Achieving Broadband Multimedia Communications" by Zhang, H., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was published in IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.
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- Date: November 27, 2006
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Energy-Efficient Cooperative Relaying over Fading Channels with Simple Relay Selection" by Madan, R., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J., "Progressive Accumulative Routing in Wireless Networks" by Yim, R., Mehta, N., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J., "WLC41-6: Cooperative Relay Networks Using Fountain Codes" by Molisch, A.F., Mehta, N.B., Yedidia, J.S. and Zhang, J. and "WEC11-2: Propagation Channel Characteristics for Peer-to-Peer Multiple Antenna Systems at 300 MHz" by Eriksson, G., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- Date: November 22, 2006
Where: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Robust License Plate Detection Using Covariance Descriptor in a Neural Network Framework" by Porikli, F. and Kocak, T. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS).
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- Date: November 7, 2006
Where: Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics (IECON)
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "A Comparison between Polynomial and Locally Weighted Regression for Fault Detection and Diagnosis of HVAC Equipment" by Radhakrishnan, R., Nikovski, D., Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A. was presented at the Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics (IECON).
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- Date: November 6, 2006
Where: European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) Brief - The paper "Very Fast Subarray Position Calculation for Minimizing Sidelobes in Sparse Linear Phased Arrays" by Lee, C., Leigh, D., Ryall, K., Miyashita, H. and Hirata, K. was presented at the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP).
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- Date: November 4, 2006
Where: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Exploring the Effects of Group Size and Display Configuration on Visual Search" by Forlines, C., Shen, C., Wigdor, D. and Balakrishnan, R. was presented at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
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- Date: November 2, 2006
Where: International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) Brief - The paper "GSI Demo: Multiuser Gesture/Speech Interaction over Digital Tables by Wrapping Single User Applications" by Tse, E., Greenberg, S. and Shen, C. was presented at the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI).
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- Date: November 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Tree-Based Data Broadcast in IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Networks" by Ding, G., Sahinoglu, Z., Orlik, P., Zhang, J. and Bhargava, B. was published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
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- Date: November 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation Brief - The articles "A Comprehensive Standardized Model for Ultrawideband Propagation Channels" by Molisch, A.F., Cassioli, D., Chong, C.-C., Emami, S., Fort, A., Kannan, B., Karedal, J., Kunisch, J., Schantz, H.G., Siwiak, K. and Win, M.Z. and "Impact of Matching Network on Bandwidth of Compact Antenna Arrays" by Lau, B.K., Andersen, J.B., Kristensson, G. and Molisch, A.F. were published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
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- Date: November 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The article "On the Optimality of Equal Gain Combining for Energy Detection of Unknown Signals" by Gezici, S., Sahinoglu, Z. and Poor, H.V. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: November 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Ultra-Wideband Communications Using Hybrid Matched Filter Correlation Receivers" by Tufvesson, F., Gezici, S. and Molisch, A.F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: October 15, 2006
Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Brief - The papers "Under the Table Interaction" by Wigdor, D., Leigh, D., Forlines, C., Shipman, S., Barnwell, J., Balakrishnan, R. and Shen, C., "Multi-User, Multi-Display Interaction with a Single-User, Single-Display Geospatial Application" by Forlines, C., Esenther, A., Shen, C., Wigdor, D. and Ryall, K., "Two New Techniques for Natural Spoken User Interfaces" by Weinberg, G., Raj, B. and Kalgaonkar, K. and "HybridPointing: Fluid Switching between Absolute and Relative Pointing with a Direct Input Device" by Forlines, C., Vogel, D. and Balakrishnan, R. were presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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- Date: October 15, 2006
Where: Pattern Recognition
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Similarity-based Analysis for Large Networks of Ultra-Low Resolution Sensors" by Wren, C.R., Minnen, D.C. and Rao, S.G. was published in Pattern Recognition.
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- Date: October 8, 2006
Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Extensions of H.264/AVC for Multiview Video Compression" by Martinian, E., Behrens, A., Xin, J., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Fast Construction of Covariance Matrices for Arbitrary Size Image Windows" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. and "A Cascading Framework of Contour Motion and Deformation Estimation for Non-Rigid Object Tracking" by Shao, J., Porikli, F. and Chellappa, R. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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- Date: October 8, 2006
Where: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Dealing with Multi-Scale Depth Changes and Motion in Depth Edge Detection" by Feris, R., Tuk, M. and Raskar, R. was presented at the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI).
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- Date: October 3, 2006
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Hybrid Distributed Video Coding Using SCA Codes" by Martinian, E., Vetro, A., Yedidia, J.S., Ascenso, J., Khisti, A. and Malioutov, D. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP).
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- Date: October 1, 2006
Where: International Conference Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik Brief - The papers "UWB-based Sensor Networks and the IEEE 802.15.4a Standard" by Molisch, A.F., Orlik, P., Sahinoglu, Z. and Zhang, J. and "Implementation Aspects of Antenna Selection for MIMO Systems" by Molisch, A.F., Mehta, N.B., Zhang, H., Almers, P. and Zhang, J. were presented at the International Conference Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom).
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- Date: October 1, 2006
Where: Journal of Real-time Image Processing
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The article "Achieving Real-Time Object Detection and Tracking Under Extreme Conditions" by Porikli, F. was published in Journal of Real-time Image Processing.
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- Date: October 1, 2006
Where: Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Merging Segmentations of Low-level and Mid-level Time Series for Audio Class Discovery" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A. was presented at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC).
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